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| CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. j The opinion is expressed in influential quarters in , 1 England that a scheme for licensing bookmakers is f one of the possibilities. C. H. Pettingill has reached San Diego safe and I found and reports himself as much impressed with I the Tia Juana outlook. ! It is said that "Snapper" Garrison, one of the • i a best jockeys who ever rode in this country, is an i applicant for a job as "stakeholder" at the nearby i New Orleans meeting. , Harry Cooper is dead at Toronto after having been , ill for a long time. He was interested in racing a generation ago, and won the Kings Plate in 1888 i with Harry Cooper, though the colt was raced in , * anothers name. t A writer in The Latest Durban says that up to I the beginning of last month. Corriecrian. with 235 held tlie South African record for one mile and a ! half, but Highbury put that completely in the shade ; , by winning the Goldfields Handicap in Johannes- - burg, in 2:X;i4. At Turffontefn. the track where ; , the race referred to was decided, there is an elec- , trie clock, so it is safe to say the time was correct i South African tracks, though, are not nearly " as fa*t ! as American courses. !
